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"
From
the
moment
of
the
first
signs
of
it
,
a
man
would
be
dead
in
an
hour
.
Some
lasted
for
several
hours
.
Many
died
within
ten
or
fifteen
minutes
of
the
appearance
of
the
first
signs
.
"
The
heart
began
to
beat
faster
and
the
heat
of
the
body
to
increase
.
Then
came
the
scarlet
rash
,
spreading
like
wildfire
over
the
face
and
body
.
Most
persons
never
noticed
the
increase
in
heat
and
heart-beat
,
and
the
first
they
knew
was
when
the
scarlet
rash
came
out
.
Usually
,
they
had
convulsions
at
the
time
of
the
appearance
of
the
rash
.
But
these
convulsions
did
not
last
long
and
were
not
very
severe
.
If
one
lived
through
them
,
he
became
perfectly
quiet
,
and
only
did
he
feel
a
numbness
swiftly
creeping
up
his
body
from
the
feet
.
The
heels
became
numb
first
,
then
the
legs
,
and
hips
,
and
when
the
numbness
reached
as
high
as
his
heart
he
died
.
They
did
not
rave
or
sleep
.
Their
minds
always
remained
cool
and
calm
up
to
the
moment
their
heart
numbed
and
stopped
.
And
another
strange
thing
was
the
rapidity
of
decomposition
.
No
sooner
was
a
person
dead
than
the
body
seemed
to
fall
to
pieces
,
to
fly
apart
,
to
melt
away
even
as
you
looked
at
it
.
That
was
one
of
the
reasons
the
plague
spread
so
rapidly
.
All
the
billions
of
germs
in
a
corpse
were
so
immediately
released
.
"
And
it
was
because
of
all
this
that
the
bacteriologists
had
so
little
chance
in
fighting
the
germs
.
They
were
killed
in
their
laboratories
even
as
they
studied
the
germ
of
the
Scarlet
Death
.
They
were
heroes
.
As
fast
as
they
perished
,
others
stepped
forth
and
took
their
places
.
It
was
in
London
that
they
first
isolated
it
.
The
news
was
telegraphed
everywhere
.
Trask
was
the
name
of
the
man
who
succeeded
in
this
,
but
within
thirty
hours
he
was
dead
.
Then
came
the
struggle
in
all
the
laboratories
to
find
something
that
would
kill
the
plague
germs
.
All
drugs
failed
.
You
see
,
the
problem
was
to
get
a
drug
,
or
serum
,
that
would
kill
the
germs
in
the
body
and
not
kill
the
body
.
They
tried
to
fight
it
with
other
germs
,
to
put
into
the
body
of
a
sick
man
germs
that
were
the
enemies
of
the
plague
germs
--
"
"
And
you
ca
n't
see
these
germ-things
,
Granser
,
"
Hare-Lip
objected
,
"
and
here
you
gabble
,
gabble
,
gabble
about
them
as
if
they
was
anything
,
when
they
're
nothing
at
all
.
Anything
you
ca
n't
see
,
ai
n't
,
that
's
what
.
Fighting
things
that
ai
n't
with
things
that
ai
n't
!
They
must
have
been
all
fools
in
them
days
.
That
's
why
they
croaked
.
I
ai
n't
goin
'
to
believe
in
such
rot
,
I
tell
you
that
.
"
Granser
promptly
began
to
weep
,
while
Edwin
hotly
took
up
his
defence
.
"
Look
here
,
Hare-Lip
,
you
believe
in
lots
of
things
you
ca
n't
see
.
"
Hare-Lip
shook
his
head
.
"
You
believe
in
dead
men
walking
about
.
You
never
seen
one
dead
man
walk
about
.
"
"
I
tell
you
I
seen
'em
,
last
winter
,
when
I
was
wolf-hunting
with
dad
.
"
"
Well
,
you
always
spit
when
you
cross
running
water
,
"
Edwin
challenged
.
